4.4.11

mark graham…It’s almost time.  Down to just a few days before we head to Haiti.  My thoughts are all over the place.  I think I have everything ready.  Or at least I hope so.  The big details are done.  The students are prepped.  We met last night for the final time.  You could just feel a buzz in the room.  Looking forward to starting a partnership with a community, to look for ways to partner with the local church, to meet the people.  Good stuff.

For the past week or so I have been studying God’s truth behind kindness.  Most of it started with my message for our students but it hit me hard when I really began to get in to it.  The story of David and Mephibosheth is an amazing portrait of kindness.  David offering compassion and concern when he didn’t have to.  The story of the Good Samaritan.  He saw a man along side of the road and saw to it that the man received the proper care.  God made it law in Exodus 23 that his people were to show kindness to their enemies.  Kindness is a huge deal to God.  It is that nudge that eats at you as you watch images on TV.  It’s that nudge you feel when you see a need.  I want to do something but I talk myself out it.

Kindness isn’t always easy but it’s the best way for us to display who Jesus is and what he’s all about.

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